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Dragons Chained for Later Roasting

Date: 1655
Description: Scene from the Vespucci Expedition, 1499.
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La Follette Kills a Bear

Date: 1907
Description: Senator Robert M. La Follette Sr., (with rifle), Robert M. La Follette Jr., and guide Jake Borah with the bear shot by the senator.
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Walter Simon with his Shot Gun

Date: 11 08 1955
Description: Walter Simon holds his shot gun to show its wooden parts that he crafted himself. According to his obituary, published on October 18, 1964, he was the Dir...
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Southern Wisconsin Ducks Unlimited Committee

Date: 01 14 1959
Description: The Southern Wisconsin Ducks Unlimited committee organizes a dinner to raise funds to develop duck habitat in the Canadian prairie provinces. Committee cha...
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Dorothy Knowles Hunting with Dogs

Date: 1968
Description: Former First Lady Dorothy Knowles hunting with two dogs. She is posed aiming her gun. There is snow on the ground and trees in the background.
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Cigar Box Cover for Nelson Dewey Cigars

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Description: Cigar box cover with a head and shoulders portrait of Nelson Dewey. Beneath his portrait is a Native American headdress, a tomahawk, a stone club and a qui...
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A. Burke Summers Campaigns for Goldwater

Date: 10 24 1964
Description: A. Burke Summers, former ambassador to Luxemburg and hunter of African big game, traveled the U.S. in 1964 campaigning at his own expense for Goldwater and...
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Governor Knowles Pheasant Hunting

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Description: Governor Warren Perley Knowles, 37th Governor of Wisconsin, standing in a snowy cornfield. He is holding a hunting rifle, and a dog on the left is pointing...
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Tagging a Buck

Date: 1937
Description: Two conservation wardens are crouching to tag a buck lying in the snow. The buck was killed illegally. Two other wardens are standing and observing. The gr...
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Deer Check Station

Date: 11 1976
Description: At a Department of Natural Resources deer check station, a man is inspecting a buck tied to the top of a trailer. The other man is standing by the truck wa...

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